<p>Then there is a well-known urban legend story about someone at Penn Station in NYC who was carrying their dead dog in a suitcase–taking him by train to be buried in a New Jersey pet cemetery…</p>
<p>Weenie,</p>
<p>Any word yet?</p>
<p>No. Still lost! </p>
<p>Last night about 9:00pm I called every US Air baggage person I “know” (who wants to know people in the lost baggage departments?) and asked them to make a final sweep. I told them that I’m concerned they are looking for a bag with his claim on it - but it seems to have someone else’s claim on it. They were able to tell me that the person whose name is on my son’s claim ticket got two suitcases back – and they did not match the description of my son’s at all. They have all been very nice, professional, and apologetic, but they really have no clue. </p>
<p>Then I took a look at our bags here at home to remind myself what the ID tags were like that I put on them for our last trip (June). True to my anal self they are realy good. Flourescent orange, with our last name magic-markered on the outside. On the inside identification I have neatly typed name, address, and phone number, on the label. How come no one can find this???!!!</p>
<p>Still putting off buying a new winter jacket, boxers, pjs, gloves, athletic clothes etc. He got some clothes for Christmas, so I haven’t seen the jeans and hoody he came home wearing.</p>
<p>Oh well. This too shall pass. Thanks for asking!</p>
<p>I still think that a passenger walked off with them thinking it was theirs, and then did not bother contacting the airlines. Perhaps even somebody like a limo driver picked them up and place them in their trunk for a passenger (not reading tags and going by bag description), and did not return them.</p>
<p>Aaaaaargh!! I washed S1’s passport! The one with all the special visas that now have to be replaced. The one he needs for our family trip in five days.</p>
<p>Cheers:</p>
<p>Oh no! I hope there are not too many that need to be replaced!</p>
<p>Our family usually only travels by car, but we have taken the kids out of the country a few times. I am so anal about their passports that I keep them in my room for safe keeping. My son is going to Germany this summer and needed his passport to get some information. As it has been sitting out on the table now for 2 weeks, you have reminded me to put it away ASAP! I could see my son throwing it into his car never to be seen again. </p>
<p>I did have my daughter take her passpost to school with her as she is so close to Canada I thought she might go visit on a weekend. I hope she knows where she put it!</p>
<p>Will you be able to replace everything in that short of a time?</p>
<p>By grace, the Vietnam visa is still legible. No time to do anything about it anyway. Fingers crosses they still admit him. The others will need to be replaced after he gets a new passport. </p>
<p>All I can sayis: they don’t make 'em like they used to.</p>
<p>Well whoop-de-doo. US Air sent me a check for $150. Not bad on a $2100.00 claim. What the heck???</p>
<p>Hmmm… Any way to contest the amount?</p>
<p>That is a shame. It would not even pay for the eyeglass bill where we live (and I am not talking about designer frames). That is incredible.</p>
<p>weenie, the one time we lost luggage (years ago when the boys were small) we received more than one payment. The first was sort of a “hold you over” payment for immediate expenses to replace urgent items in the lost bag. Later we received further payment; could this be a multi-step process in your case, and this is just the first installment? (I hope?)</p>
<p>just noticed this on aol.com, and thought of this thread, for what it’s worth: (having to do with travelers’ rights vis a vis lost luggage and other things:
<a href=“http://www.independenttraveler.com/resources/article.cfm?AID=91&category=12[/url]”>http://www.independenttraveler.com/resources/article.cfm?AID=91&category=12</a></p>
<p>I am so sorry for the hassles you had!</p>
<p>sucks about the luggage, your son isn’t the brightest for packing everything he owns though…</p>
<p>for future reference, if you have an amex card, and you get your flight through them, you get $1000 lost luggage insurance ontop of whatever the airlines will give you. Not quite the $2100 that you lost - but $1150 would be a bit better than $150.</p>
<p>Ha! Anybody interested in an update about this boring situation???</p>
<p>Son got back to school today, after US Air jerked him around all morning with flights. They changed his flight three times, which caused us to have to go home and then drive back to the airport. (Don’t you love it when that happens?) Then they changed his flight again which caused, guess what???:</p>
<p>HIS SUITCASE TO BE ROUTED WRONG!!!</p>
<p>So, now he’s at school without his brand new wardrobe.</p>
<p>Will this ever end? So I call baggage to give them a piece of my mind, and they’re all confused because he has two lost bag claim numbers, from two different flights - Duh.</p>
<p>(We were laughing about the prospect of him having to replace his wardrobe at the school bookstore.)</p>
<p>OMG!!!:eek: That is not to be believed!!! </p>
<p>I’m so sorry to hear this!!!</p>
<p>$150? Holy cow. American Airlines was better than that. </p>
<p>Cannot believe his luggage is lost AGAIN!</p>
<p>As for S1’s passport, I took duly offered scoldings as we crisscrossed Asia/Oceania on holiday. Passport will have to be replaced. </p>
<p>On another note, H dropped our Leica camera in November and it was pronounced unfixable by the camera shop. Sigh. When I went in to replace it as a Christmas gift to H, I told the sad story about my Butterfingers. Lo and behold, the salesman took an amazing 60% off retail price! It was half the cost of the first one!</p>
<p>weenie:
You have got to be kidding. Perhaps this story would be a good human interest story in say USA Today? Maybe that would get USAir interested in your college student’s wardrobe pronto?!</p>
<p>This is incredible. I am so sorry you are having to go through this again!!! UNBELIEVABLE!</p>
<p>I just wrote US Air a letter and told them I want the whole ticket refunded too, $231.80. </p>
<p>I’m sure they’ll get right on that…</p>
<p>I am expecting more money from the BIG claim, but who knows when or how much. It is virtually impossible to talk to anyone who knows anything. And believe me - I have tried.</p>
<p>Well I’m going to sit down with a glass of wine. Hopefully son is not doing the same. ;)</p>